Most likely, Discovery is set between ENT and TOS (from the fact it is a USS - we're looking post Romulan Wars and post founding of the UFP). Beyond featured heavily the turmoil in the early days of the Federation where the veterans of the Xindi and Romulan wars had to adjust to a new age of peace and exploration. It is hardly unusual to set up your new spin off via existing media, so can we guess a theme of Discovery is the crew adapting to this new paradigm? Will we see some Franklin-class ships. If his paypacket wasn't an issue, we could get a Krall backstory...
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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tl;dr, he's an attention TRIBBLE and we should ignore him.
While a fair point, it doesn't mean they aren't talking to the same era of history. If A focuses on impact of a certain decade then you set B in certain decade, some connection is hard to avoid. The one oft-quoted comment of it not being connected to Beyond could simply be a reiteration that a) they are not linked production wise and b) are not in the same universe or time period.